This woman is the wife of Odysseus
Who is Penelope?
Odysseus was known for being this
What is being clever?
It took Odysseus this many years to get home.
What is 20 years?
This Greek god is the father of the cyclops.
What Is Poseidon?
This term is a long narrative poem that relates important events in history or folklore of the culture that produced it.
What is an Epic?
This god is the king of all God's and the Lord of cloud
Who is Zeus?
This quote from the beginning of the text shows Odysseus's loyalty to his wife and his home.
What is "But in my heart I never gave consent. Where shall a man find sweetness to surpass his own home and his parents? In far lands he shall not, though he find a house of gold"
This place is Odysseus's home.
What is Ithaca?
This monster is a sea monster of gray rock.
Who is Scylla?
This term means to take something by force.
What is plundered?
This Greek god is known as Odyesseus's father
Who is is Laertes?
Odysseus helped his men calm down from the sounds wave of the tumult by doing this.
What is he "put heart into them".
This is where Odysseus and his men land and eat plants that puts them in a trance
What is the Land of the Lotus Eaters
Who is Charybdis"
This term means "craftiness" or cunning"
What is guile?
This god helps Odysseus.
Who is Circe?
These leadership qualities are displayed in lines 772-781
What is Confidence / taking charge of his shipmates?
The men though this was the worst way to die if they didn't eat the cattle at Helio's Island.
What is Starving?
These are creatures whose songs lure their sailors to death
What is Sirens ?
This term means to put on an appearance or disguise
What is Dissemble?
God of the Underworld
Who is Hades?
Lines 520-525 describes this characteristic "Noble birth and LARGER THAN LIFE PERSON"
What is he was a natural born leader / He roused his men to give them orders
This quote in lines 530-531 shows how Odysseus did not want to go to the Underworld
What is "embarked the ram and ewe and went aboard in tears, with bitter and sore dread upon us".
This god is the cyclops who imprisons Odysseus and his men.
What is Polyphemus
Odysseus describes this god as the "singing nymph hair"
Who is Circe?